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STRONG BAD: So cool an email. I thought you would enjoy it. Ding dong,
{reading}

Dear Strong Bad,
what would you look like as a
japanese cartoon and what would
it be about?

-james f.

{Strong Bad pronounces "f." as "fffffffffff"}

STRONG BAD:{typing} A Japanese cartoon, eh, James? I saw one o' thems once. Let's see what I can remember.

{Cut to a white screen with Strong Bad standing there. As he describes how he would look, the changes are applied}

STRONG BAD: Okay, so first of all, my head would have to be a little bean. With real, real big eyes. Get rid of my thumbs, make me all shiny {clean noise that sounds like a harp, or bells, or both} ...my boots would be a whole lot cooler. Like robot boots. {robotic 'shooo' noise} And for some reason, I got blue hair. You gotta have blue hair. Then there's my mouth. Real tiny when it's closed; ridiculously huge when it's open. And then you basically just put me in space and let me fly around in cool poses!

{Stinkoman, the anime version of Strong Bad, flies around in assorted cool poses. He then lands down in a futuristic anime rendition of the field. Video game music plays in the background.}

STRONG BAD: And they'd probably have somebody else do the voices.

{1-Up, the 20X6 counterpart of Homestar Runner, walks in}

1-UP: Hey Stinkoman! Everybody says you're the guy, but I wanna be the guy too!

STINKOMAN: No way, you're just a kid! Maybe when you're older.

{Pan Pan, the anime version of Pom Pom designed to look like a panda, bounces in and squashes 1-Up}

{Suddenly, the cartoon transitions into an ink-drawing of the scene. The Stinkoman K theme song starts playing. The lyrics are:}

Challenge and fighting and
Fighting the challenge tonight.

Everybody's fighting for the
Challenge of the fighting and the

Challenge and fighting and
Fighting the challenge tonight.

{While the song is playing, the background then changes to a similar sketch of Stinkoman powering up, upon which the credits appear:}

Executive Producer

H. Yamauchi

Producer

S. Miyahon

{The backdrop changes to Stinkoman in a different pose.}

Director

S. Miyahon

Ten Ten

Designer

Ten Ten

{The backdrop becomes a head with huge spikes for hair and Strong Bad's eyes. The style resembles Akira Toriyama's, who is best known for the Dragon Ball shows.}

Programmer

T. Nakazoo

MaruMaru

Sound Composer

Konchan

{Cut to the Compy with Strong Bad typing}

STRONG BAD:{in Stinkoman's voice, typing} Japanese cartoons are w— {clears his throat, his voice returns to normal} Oh, ahem, excuse me. {typing} Japanese cartoons are weird, man. Though I may be on to something with that blue hair. {stops typing} Look pretty nice, it look-a pretty nice!

{The scene does an ink-transition and more credits appear as Strong Bad sings the 20X6 theme tune:}

The name Stinkoman is a reference to island, when Homestar calls Strong Bad "Stinkoman." Coincidentally, the alias of the email sender was Yami Yugi, the name of a main character of a popular anime series and card game Yu-Gi-Oh!

The first line of Strong Bad's haiku is similar to Strong Bad Email #34, weird dream, in which The Cheat's computer, Tangerine Dreams, has an icon labeled "So Cool A Flash," and the image Strong Bad brings up entitled "So Weird a Dream." (see also Real-World References)

The "K" in "Stinko Man K 20X6" is a homage to anime mega-series such as Dragon Ball, Gundam, and Sailor Moon, which use letters to separate different series or seasons (e.g., Dragon Ball Z, Z Gundam, Sailor Moon R, etc.)

The line, "No way, you're just a kid! Maybe when you're older" is a reference to the anime movie Akira, where Kaneda refuses to let Tetsuo ride his motorbike because he's "just a kid". Also, Stinkoman's voice is similar to Cam Clarke's dub of Kaneda.

The 20X6 and Homestar watching Easter eggs are now opened by different icons. The Strong Bad's head icon on the right side of the Compy 386 screen opens the former, and the one in the lower left corner of the Compy 386 opens the latter.

Be warned that if you open the Homestar Easter egg, you have to restart the toon in order to see the other one.

The NES Endings are still accessible, though you have to wait for the Homestar video clip to be finished before you can access them.

MATT: So this is when we started this email at, like, 10 PM on Sunday night, didn't we?

MIKE: I think so.

MATT:{simultaneously} And we didn't finish until early... or late Monday?

MIKE: Ummm...

MATT:{simultaneously} Or early Tuesday.

MIKE: No, I think it was up on Monday.

MATT: Okay.

MIKE: But it was definitely later in the day.

MATT: I remember Matt and Jenna, our friends Matt and Jenna came over and we had just drawn some of these preliminary drawings of Strong Bad as Stinkoman and we showed it to them.

MIKE: I don't remember that.

MATT: They did! They came over—

MIKE: I believe you! I'm just saying I don't remember it.

MATT: Well I don't—

MIKE: I don't have anything to add to that, uh, line of—

MATT: I don't know why we did, we probably had a good time for a little while—

MIKE: Maybe.

MATT: —and then they left.

MIKE: Yeah?

{pause}

MATT: This is another email, nobody likes this email, everybody hates this email.

{Mike laughs a little.}

MATT: You know. There's that ship! Originally we were going to say that ship was The Cheat.

MIKE: Oh yeah, that's right! {laughs}

MATT: That was going to be, the 20X6 version of The Cheat was that ship.

MIKE: We should still do that.

MATT: Yeah, maybe—maybe so.

MIKE: Um... I like Homestar's boots there.

MATT: Yeah. I mean, I think we didn't—until we recorded this line, we weren't going to, like, call him Stinkoman, were we? And it was, we were just making that reference, to the old, to the island email.

MIKE:{at the same time, overlapping} You've got to remember... right.

MATT: I love those mushroom things. I love those—the mushroom things—

MIKE: There's the tear over your head.

MATT: The tear, the snot...

MIKE: And the snot bubble.

MATT: There's some other stuff.

MIKE:{simultaneously} So many weird things that happen in—

MATT:{simultaneously} Those mushroom things happen in, uh, Animal Crossing, when they get mad at you.

MIKE: Oh yeah, that's right! Yeah, Matt!

MATT: Of course, these are all the credits from, uh, the original Legend of Zelda.

The album in particular Matt and Mike reference at the beginning is Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. Zaireeka was a highly experimental album designed to be heard on 4 separate discs played simultaneously. The part of the album they reference happens at the beginning of each track and serves as a way to let the listener know if the discs are synced properly.

The talk about the Cheatball being a spaceship is likely a reference to the anime Tenchi Muyo, where the cabbitRyo-Ohki could transform into a spaceship several hundred times her size.

In the video game Animal Crossing, when the villagers get mad, steam clouds come out of their heads, not mushroom clouds like Matt said. When the villagers are laughing, words that mean laughing (such as ha ha) flash around their heads in a way similar to the way that mushroom clouds appear around Stinkoman's head.